On 12 Jun 2013, at 14:06, Dana Pearson <dbpearsonm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the replies..I had looked at GitHub but thought it something
> different, ie, collaborative software development...I will look again

Yes - that's the main use (git is version control software, GitHub hosts git 
repositories) - but of course git doesn't care what types of files you have 
under version control. It came to mind because I know it's been used to 
distribute metadata files before - e.g. this set of metadata from the Cooper 
Hewitt National Design Museum https://github.com/cooperhewitt/collection

There could be some additional benefits gained through using git to version 
control this type of file, and GitHub to distribute them if you were 
interested, but it can act as simply a place to put the files and make them 
available for download. But of course the other suggestions would do this 
simpler task just as well.

Owen

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